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Induction of a Carbon-Starvation-Related Proteolysis in Whole
Maize Plants Submitted to Light/Dark Cycles and to Extended
Darkness1
Renaud Brouquisse*,
Jean-Pierre Gaudillère, and
Philippe Raymond
Station de Physiologie Végétale (R.B., P.R.), and
Station d'Agronomie (J.-P.G.), Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, Centre de Recherche de Bordeaux, BP 81, 33883 Villenave
d'Ornon cedex, France
Three-week-old maize (Zea
mays L.) plants were submitted to light/dark
cycles and to prolonged darkness to investigate the occurrence of
sugar-limitation effects in different parts of the whole plant. Soluble
sugars fluctuated with light/dark cycles and dropped sharply during
extended darkness. Significant decreases in protein level were observed
after prolonged darkness in mature roots, root tips, and young leaves.
Glutamine and asparagine (Asn) changed in opposite ways, with Asn
increasing in the dark. After prolonged darkness the increase in Asn
accounted for most of the nitrogen released by protein breakdown. Using
polyclonal antibodies against a vacuolar root protease previously
described (F. James, R. Brouquisse, C. Suire, A. Pradet, P. Raymond
[1996] Biochem J 320: 283-292) or the 20S proteasome, we showed that
the increase in proteolytic activities was related to an enrichment of
roots in the vacuolar protease, with no change in the amount of 20S proteasome in either roots or leaves. Our results show that no significant net proteolysis is induced in any part of the plant during
normal light/dark cycles, although changes in metabolism and growth
appear soon after the beginning of the dark period, and
starvation-related proteolysis probably appears in prolonged darkness
earlier in sink than in mature tissues.
1
This work was supported by the French Institut
National de la Recherche Agronomique.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail brouquis{at}bordeaux.inra.fr; fax
33-556-84-32-35.
Plant Physiol. (1998) 117: 1281-1291
Copyright Clearance Center: 0032-0889/98/117//11
© 1998 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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